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Use these 9 websites as a UI/UX Benchmark

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Understanding User Interface Design (UI) and User Experience Design (UX) is far more efficiently accomplished by exposure rather than by explanation. You can read a thousand pages about these methods and not “get it” until surfing through a few sites that exemplify the goal. The internet relies on human experience, capitalizing on ease of use […]

5 UI Animation Trends That Will Shape UX in 2016

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The UI creates a virtual bridge between the user and the software. A well-designed user interface should allow intuitive interaction and provide ease of access to the application’s complete functionality. UI Development Throughout The Years In the past few decades, the graphical user interface has changed tremendously. It started out as a simplified bitmapped screen […]

How To Improve User Experience With Heatmap Testing

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Getting traffic to a website is one thing, but managing to allocate it to specific pages and offers is a totally different story. While search engine optimization might be considered as more technically oriented, the art of making users watch and click on specific objects replies more on pure psychology. It implicates user experiencce studies […]

Striking a Balance: Features vs. Functionality

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It’s a tale that’s common in design circles—you’ve designed a beautiful website with lots of features. You and your client are quite pleased with the finished product, until that dreadful day when the customer feedback starts pouring in. In your haste to build something aesthetically pleasing and packed with features, you neglected to take the […]

How To Design Readable Comment Threads

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Comment sections are built for user interaction. Websites are mostly about consumption and comments are a way for readers to share their thoughts with others. But not all comments are created equal, and certain techniques are more favorable than others. In this post I’d like to cover some helpful tips for building readable comment threads. […]

Stylish Examples of Custom Scrolling Effects in Web Design

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Many dynamic websites add custom scrolling effects into the layout. These effects can be created using JavaScript which manipulates the page’s default scroll behavior. At times this can be annoying – but when used appropriately custom scrolling can improve a website’s usability. Most scrolling effects originate from parallax websites using custom plugins. These plugins are […]

Walking the SEO and Web Design Tightrope: How to Balance UX and Site Crawlability?

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It’s no longer enough to be a web designer in this day and age. Thanks (or no thanks) to website builders that allow startups and business owners without any design experience to create a website by just dragging and dropping elements unto a page on their site,  the need for a professional designer may not be as […]

Best UX Design Solutions for Date Input Fields

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The purpose of user experience design is to focus solely on how an interface behaves. This is traditionally more important than the actual design because a pretty-looking website is useless if nobody can use it. Thus UX has become a field unto itself with areas of focus derived from usability and case studies. The absolute […]